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This movie is part of the collection: Animation Shorts

Director: John Foster
Production Company: Van Beuren Studios
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w
Keywords: animation

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Robin_1990 - - May 6, 2008
Subject: Better than stuff the critics liked!
I love this cartoon. Better than any 60's Looney Tune. The company that made this was very underrated, along with Noveltoons, Pre-60's Terrytoons and Hanna-Barbera toons.

Reviewer: robcat2075 - - January 3, 2008
Subject: also rans
The Van Beuren oufit was probably the weakest in story and animation skills of all the "golden age" studios. They made up for it with, uh... well, they never really made up for it but I get the sense that these guys were trying real hard. If they had just had someone on board who knew how put all the parts together, they might have been a contender.

Reviewer: BelaRose - - January 3, 2008
Subject: Definitely worth a Gander!
I love the style of these old cartoons, with they're bendy characters and surreal charm, and this one was no exception. Well worth watching.

Reviewer: kareneliot - - December 30, 2005
Subject: Worth 7 minutes of your time.
Enjoyable and creative.

Reviewer: medianook1 - - December 5, 2005
Subject: great example of early animation.
If you are familiar with early animation like Betty Boop or early Disney cartoons like the Skeleton Dance then Pencil Mania will seem perfectly normal. If you are used to modern cartoons, this is going to seem like a really weird dreamscape. In Pencil Mania, eggs and fruit are created from ink drawn into a pencil; the fruit later become people -- even leading to a "Perils of Penelope" moment!

Reviewer: ne7 - - September 20, 2005
Subject: Wonderful weird little cartoon!
Great black and white cartoon - seemingly influenced by the Fleicher brothers... contains a great song about banana's sung by 3 large fruit! *grin* utterly odd and wonderfully surreal!